Over the Past Quarter Century, Relics of 32 Saints Brought to Holy Etchmiadzin
20.10.2025
At the behest and by the directive of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, thirty-two reliquaries of the Armenian Apostolic Church and saints from across the Christian world were brought to the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. These include hand-shaped and cross-shaped reliquaries, as well as reliquary chests. Among them are the hand of Saint Nerses Shnorhali (the Gracious), the relics of Saint Gregory of Narek, the reliquary of Saint Hovhannes III Odznetsi (John of Odzun) the Wise, and the renowned reliquary chest of Skevra.